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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • rofinbv@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: De Lotto Netherlands <De Lotto Netherlands@aim.com>
Reply-To: De@i-generation.biz, Lotto@i-generation.biz, Netherlands@aim.com
Date: 19 Sep 2006 21:31:22 -0000
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




De Lotto Netherlands

International Lottery Programs

Maasstraat 309, 2515 AA, Den Haag,The Netherlands.

Ref: Number: NHL/872L56/05

Batch Number: 65321/LH



LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of De Lotto Netherlands International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. Your email address was attached to ticket number 009-546672920, drew the lucky numbers 5-99-672-098-98-06, batch number 65321/LH and consequently won the lottery in category A. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 450,000.00 Euro (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro) in credited to file lottery Ref Number NHL/872L56/05. This is from total prize money of 4,500,000.00 Euro shared among the international winners in categories A with Serial Number: HL/DLH/82-N23787/AJ. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company email addresses and 70,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia
, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, South/North America and Asia as part of International Promotional Program, which is conducted annually.



CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund is now in the custody of a financial company insured in your File Reference number. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public notice until your Claims has been process and your winning is remitted to you. This is part of our security policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. This lottery program was promoted by our group of philanthropist headed by the Netherlands government. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our next stakes 8,000,000.00 Euro International Lottery.



To file for your claim, please contact our financial agent:

Contact details below.



Mr. Van Bosman

Royal Security & Finance BV

Tel: 00-31-644-777-769

Email: rofinbv@aim.com





Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than October 10th, 2006. After this date, all lottery winning funds that are not claimed will be returned as unclaimed.



Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to always quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as possible.



Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotion.

Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.



Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Mac Van Donk.

(Lottery Co-ordinator)

De Lotto Netherlands International



NB.

Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification

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